He started working as a barber in the US, before going on to run a restaurant, bar and allegedly even a brothel — enterprises that made him wealthy.

He returned to the vilage of Kallstadt with his fortune in 1901 and met his future wife Elisabeth Christ. The two married and moved to New York, but returned to Kallstadt two years later, after Elisabeth said she was homesick.

The decree orders “American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the area “at the very latest on 1 May [...] or else expect to be deported”.